This is an analysis of the poem Das Schlauraffen Landt. that begins with:

Ain gegent haist Schlauraffen land,
Den faulen leuten wol bekant, ...

Elements of the verse: questions and answers

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  • Rhyme scheme: aXXXXXXXXbXXXXaaXccXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXXddXXXXXXXXXXeeffXXXcXXXXbbXXXXXXXggXffXbXXbXXXXXccccXXXXbeXXXXXbXXbXXXXXXXccXXbXXXXXXXXb
  • Stanza lengths (in strings): 129,
  • Closest metre: trochaic tetrameter
  • Сlosest rhyme: no rhyme
  • Сlosest stanza type: sonnet
  • Guessed form: unknown form
  • Metre: 110101001 11010110 111110100 11010110 1 11110110 1111111101 11110101 11101100 11101001 1 11010110 1111011111 1001111 11001011 11110101 1 11011111 1001101 110011110 10111111100 11101010 1 11111100 11010101 10111101 11001011 11001100 1 11010101 1001111101 11011110 11001101 11011111 1 1010111 111110110 10111111010 11011111 100110011 1 1111111111 11010011 11111110 10111110 1110111 1 10110111 11110101 1110111 110101110 11011110 1 11011101 10011101 111111010 11111011110 11111101 1 11111101 1110111101 11011110 10100111 11011111 1 1111111 11111011 11011110 11010110 1101111111 1 111101011111 111111100 111111100 111111110 0111111010 1 111101010 11101010 11011110 10111101 11011101 1 1111111 11110101 11010111 11111111 11011111 1 11111011 11111111 1111111 1010111 11111001 1 1111111 1111011111 11011001 11110011 10011110 1 1111111 11111101 11110110 1011111 1111101 1 110011 11111111 110111110 11110110 1111101 1 11010111 11111111 1111101 11111100 11011100 1 1111111001 11110110 11110110 11111100 1 10101100 1111111110 10111111 1111101101 1111101
  • Amount of stanzas: 1
  • Average number of symbols per stanza: 3861
  • Average number of words per stanza: 707
  • Amount of lines: 129
  • Average number of symbols per line: 29 (strings are less long than medium ones)
  • Average number of words per line: 5
  • Mood of the speaker:

    The punctuation marks are various. Neither mark predominates.

  • The author used lexical repetitions to emphasize a significant image; die, eyn, mit, man are repeated.

    The poet used anaphora at the beginnings of some neighboring lines. The same word da is repeated.

    There is a poetic device epiphora at the end of some neighboring lines rstn is repeated).

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